Samuel woolverton



@time mes @met Y @frise VSAMUEL WooLVEEToN, 0E TEENToN, NEW'JEESEY, AssieNoE To EIMSELE 'GEORGEV L. TAYLoE, AND LEWIS PARKER, JE.

' Letters Pamela. 75,716, dated March 17, 186s.

' IMPROVEMENT IN DENTAL EoEcErs.

, Be it knownv that I, SAMUEL WOOLVERTON, of Trenton, in'the county of Mercer, and State of New Jersey, i have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dental Molar-Forceps; and I doy hereby declare that the Y following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the laccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

.Figurel represents al'longitudinal,.bisection, showing the exterior side of the forceps.

Figure 2 represents the perspective view oi' my improvement, showing the manner in which the tooth .is held.

' Figure 3represents an inside view of a bisection. l

My invention consists in providing both jaws of lower molar-forceps with a' horn and crescent-beak com,- bined, andin upper molar-forceps with tllecrescent and horn on one jaw, andl the crescent alone on the other.

To enable othel'sskilled in the art .to make und' use my invention, I iv'ill proceed to describe the same.

Similar letters of reference, where they occur, denote like parts in all the drawings.

Letter A represents the bent or curved jnw of the forceps, the inner side of which is concave,so as to admit and closely lit the crown" and neck of molar teeth. B represents the crescent at the end of-thejaw; C'represents the horn projecting in a curved line from the centre of the erescent,`so that when the forceps are closed, the horns nearly meet each other'. Y l

` When tlleseforceps are applied, by simply closing them upon a molar tooth, the horns force their own way vdirectly under the body of thel tooth, between the roots, and the crescents tirmly clasp the neck' of the tooth, preventing both't'he breaking-and slipping of the tooth from the jaws of the forceps., The tooth is therefore immediately loosenedfrom' the alveolar process, and is more easily extracted, without the liability o f its being breken.` i A Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as'new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Dental molar-forceps, when provided with bornand crescent-beak combined, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL WOOLVERTON, Witnesses A ROBERT I. Woomt'crr, Jr., JOHN C l. TEMPLE. 

